Francis Alexander Shields

Francis Alexander Shields, Jr. , also known as Frank Shields, was an American businessman and an executive at Revlon in New York, best known as the father of the actress Brooke Shields.

Shields was born in New York City, the eldest son of Francis Xavier Alexander Sr., a topranking American tennis player, and Italian Princess Donna Marina Torlonia di CivitellaCesi. His mothers family is descended from several Italian princely families . Shields uncle was Don Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di CivitellaCesi, the husband of the Spanish Infanta Beatriz de Borbn y Battenberg, meaning Shields and King Juan Carlos of Spain share cousins in the Torloniade Borbn family. Together, his parents had two children

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